Deathscapes

Julie Gough is a Trawlwoolway artist, freelance curator and writer who lives in Hobart. Gough’s research and art practice often involve uncovering and re-presenting conflicting and subsumed histories, many referring to her maternal family’s experiences as Tasmanian Aboriginal people. In Hunting Ground (Pastoral), Van Diemen’s Land, 2016-2017, Gough delves into colonial sites of Indigenous massacre in Tasmania and she exposes their occlusion by settler history. Joseph Pugliese’ essay, ‘Julie Gough’s Forensic Archaeology of National Forgetting,’ speaks to this violent settler history in the context of Gough’s powerful artwork.